Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic

Engineering

Coursework instruction sheet

Session 2014-15

Course CEGE0102: Professional Skills in Civil Engineering

Title of Coursework Exercise 2 – Section through house
Type Technical Drawing
Member of Staff James Ford
Submission Date 3rd December 2020 13:00 GMT
Submission Procedure Scanned (not photo) submitted to Moodle
Assessment Weighting 10% of CEGE0102: Professional Skills in Civil Engineering
and Marking
Assessment Criteria  Meeting requirements specified in the brief (overleaf)
 Communication. Does the drawing communicate the
engineering detail well?
 Presentation incl. neatness
 Accuracy & Realism, i.e. realistic construction details
(for the UK) and a structural system that works
 Drawing Conventions, i.e. scale, border, title block,
labels, lines (type and weight), hatching, legend, view
titles (e.g. plan), dimensions, text

Penalty for late Penalties for late submissions

Penalties for late submission of coursework are set centrally by UCL.
submission Details can be found under section 3.12, here:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/academic-manual/chapters/chapter-4-
assessment-framework-taught-programmes/section-3-module-
assessment
Date and method of Within 4 weeks of submission date via Moodle

return after marking

University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 2000
email@ucl.ac.uk
www.ucl.ac.uk
Exercise 2 - Brief

Section through House

Your client has been granted planning permission for the house you designed in Exercise 1
and they need you to produce a more detailed drawing of the house design to give to
their builder. Please note I will not be referring to your exercise 1 drawings, so they don’t
need to match but your house should comply with the dimensions given in the exercise 1
brief.

Prepare a detailed section (with callouts) which clearly shows how the house is built as
well as the construction materials specified.

 Use a scale of 1:50 on A3 paper.

 Show construction materials clearly.
 You will need to research typical UK construction details and materials. Refer to the
UK building regulations. Make sure what you are drawing makes sense to you.
 Show clearly how different parts of the structure (floors, roof, walls, and foundations)
are connected to each other. Do a sense check to make sure things are not floating
in mid-air! Show the critical details in (minimum of 2) ‘callouts’.
 Include a key plan sketch showing the location of the section.
 Choose a sensible section location – rather than the ‘easiest’.
 Reference source information (in notes section of drawing)